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Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, 1997 (ICPSR 3163)

Principal Investigator(s):
Wechsler, Henry, Harvard School of Public Health

Summary:

This study resurveyed colleges that participated in the
HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH COLLEGE ALCOHOL STUDY, 1993 (ICPSR
6577). As in the 1993 survey, this survey focused on alcohol use and
alcohol problems among undergraduate college students. The survey
collected information on students' use of alcohol, tobacco, and
illicit drugs, views on campus alcohol policies and student alcohol
use, reasons for drinking alcohol and reasons for not drinking or
limiting drinking, and personal difficulties caused by drinking
problems (e.g., missed classes, injury, and trouble with police).
Additional topics covered by the survey include overall health status,
daily activities, satisfaction with education being received,
grade-point average, living arrangements, social life, sexual
activity, use of condoms during sexual intercourse, date rape, drunk
driving, and attendance in meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, Alanon,
Adult Children of Alcoholics, and Narcotics Anonymous. Background
variables include age, sex, marital status, religion, mother's and
father's drinking habits, race, and Hispanic origin.

This study resurveyed colleges that participated in the
HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH COLLEGE ALCOHOL STUDY, 1993 (ICPSR
6577). As in the 1993 survey, this survey focused on alcohol use and
alcohol problems among undergraduate college students. The survey
collected information on students' use of alcohol, tobacco, and
illicit drugs, views on campus alcohol policies and student alcohol
use, reasons for drinking alcohol and reasons for not drinking or
limiting drinking, and personal difficulties caused by drinking
problems (e.g., missed classes, injury, and trouble with police).
Additional topics covered by the survey include overall health status,
daily activities, satisfaction with education being received,
grade-point average, living arrangements, social life, sexual
activity, use of condoms during sexual intercourse, date rape, drunk
driving, and attendance in meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, Alanon,
Adult Children of Alcoholics, and Narcotics Anonymous. Background
variables include age, sex, marital status, religion, mother's and
father's drinking habits, race, and Hispanic origin.

Guidelines for Applying for Restricted Data

Before you begin an application you will need the following information to complete the form

General Requirements:

appointment at research institution; appointment must be under the jurisdiction of the receiving institution

degree requirements (possibly doctorate)

Must be submitted:

project description

IRB approval

approved security plan

roster of research and IT staff who can access or view the data or computer where data are hosted.

confidentiality pledges for all people on roster

Some require:

CV's

As explained in the ICPSR Processing Note in the codebook, variables COLL_ID (college ID number), STUDY_ID (unique respondent identifier), and SERIAL (questionnaire number within school) are restricted from general dissemination for reasons of confidentiality. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete an Agreement for the Use of Confidential Data, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research. Apply for access to these data through the ICPSR restricted data contract portal, which can be accessed via the study home page.

Any public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public.
Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Wechsler, Henry. Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, 1997. ICPSR03163-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03163.v3

Universe:
Full-time undergraduate students at four-year colleges or
universities in the United States.

Data Type(s):
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

This study was previously distributed under the
title HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH COLLEGE ALCOHOL STUDY II [UNITED
STATES]: A SEARCH FOR CHANGE AND ITS CORRELATES, 1997.

Generated
by the SAS CPORT procedure, the SAS transport file comprises the data
and a formats catalog with the value labels.

ICPSR did not receive
any code descriptions for variable COLL_ID (college ID number).
Consequently, individual colleges cannot be identified by name with
this variable.

This survey is the second round of the Harvard
School of Public Health College Alcohol Study. The first round was
conducted in 1993 (ICPSR 6577), the third round in 1999 (ICPSR 3818),
and the fourth round in 2001 (ICPSR 4291).

Methodology

Sample:
A random sample of full-time undergraduates was drawn from
130 of the 140 colleges that participated in the HARVARD SCHOOL OF
PUBLIC HEALTH COLLEGE ALCOHOL STUDY, 1993 (ICPSR 6577). The colleges
were selected from the American Council on Education's list of
accredited universities, using sampling probability proportionate to
the size of the institution. However, the data only include the 119
schools in the analytic sample of the 2001 round of the HARVARD SCHOOL
OF PUBLIC HEALTH COLLEGE ALCOHOL STUDY (ICPSR 4291). Of the 120
schools surveyed for the 2001 round, 119 met the response rate cutoff
for inclusion in that year's analytical sample. The last ICPSR version
of this study (i.e., the second version of ICPSR 3163) only included
the 119 schools of the 1999 analytical sample (ICPSR 3818), which were
slightly different from the 119 schools in 2001 analytical sample. In
1999, 119 of the 128 schools surveyed met the response rate cutoff for
inclusion in the 1999 analytical sample.

Mode of Data Collection:
mail questionnaire

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 2001-06-05

Version History:

2005-11-22 The study has been updated with revised
data supplied by the principal investigator to allow for comparable
analyses with the HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH COLLEGE ALCOHOL
STUDY, 2001 (ICPSR 4291). This version of the data comprises the same
119 schools in the ICPSR 4291 data. Six schools in the previous
version were dropped, six schools not in the previous version were
added, and six variables (SERIAL, COMMENTS, DATERECD, DATESCAN,
FORMCODE, and ipeds) were added. ICPSR revised the documentation
accordingly and added a SAS setup file to the collection. The SAS
setup includes the PROC FORMAT statements from the previous version of
the study.

2004-01-22 The principal investigator supplied a
revised data file in which the number of colleges was increased from
116 to 119: 4 schools in the first ICPSR version were dropped and 7
schools not in the first version were added. Some variables were
removed, others were renamed, and new variables, including two weight
variables, were added. Overall, the number of variables increased from
380 to 424 and the case count increased from 14,520 to 14,724. In
addition, value 2 for variable F3 was recoded to 0, and some values
for variables STUDY_ID, ANYDRUG1 and ANYDRUG2 were revised. The
documentation and other supporting files were updated accordingly.